Kabuki's forgotten war
Subtitle: 1931-1945
By: by James R. Brandon.
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 465
ISBN-13: 9780824832001
Subjects: Kabuki -- History -- 20th century; War and theater -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 -- Theater and the war
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Kabuki's foreign adventure: 1931-1939; title: Prelude to war; title: Kabuki and the Manchurian and Shanghai Incidents: 1931-1934; title: Kabuki and the Marco Polo Bridge Incident: 1937-1938; title: The darkening storm: 1939; title: Fruits of victory: 1940-1942; title: Kabuki and 2,600 years of imperial rule: 1940; title: Confrontation with America and Britain: 1941; title: Japan and kabuki at the zenith: 1942; title: Defeat and survival: 1943-1945; title: Kabuki and Japan's "decisive battle": 1943; title: Kabuki is a luxury: 1944; title: The agony ends: 1945; title: Kabuki's war plays, a retrospection: August 1945; title: Kabuki out lasts America: 1945-1947; title: Inventing classic kabuki: 1945-1947.